# Children May Learn to Understand Machines by Christopher Chabris > "Perhaps our descendants will learn the skill of understanding machines in childhood as easily as we learned to read." > **— Christopher Chabris**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* ## Sources and Context - **Full authored response and quotation context:** [Why Is It Hard To Think About Thinking Machines?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26224) — Edge's 2015 annual-question response by Christopher Chabris; the linked page contains the complete response and quoted passage. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] - **Article:** [[articles/Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession|Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Machine Intelligence Continuum|Machine Intelligence Continuum]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Artificial Ecology|Artificial Ecology]] - [[wiki/Machine Social Layer|Machine Social Layer]] - [[wiki/Mechanistic Intelligence|Mechanistic Intelligence]] - [[wiki/Physical Intelligence|Physical Intelligence]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "Perhaps our descendants will learn the skill of understanding machines in childhood as easily as we learned to read." — Christopher Chabris, 2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-christopher-chabris-children-learn-understand-machines ```